David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . A NATIVE DANCE, CENTRAL AFRICA. CHAPTER VII. NYASSALAND. ONE of the results of Livingstones many lettershome, urging the necessity and pointing outthe advantages of opening up the Shire valley and theshores of Lake Nyassa by missionary labour and thefounding of a colony, was evidenced early in 1861 bythe arrival of several members of the Oxford and Cam-bridge Mission to Africa. At their head, to guide andcontrol, was Bishop Mackenzie, a hard-working andpatient man. With them arrived the Pioneer, a steamersent by the Government in reply to Living
David Livingstone : his labours and his legacy . A NATIVE DANCE, CENTRAL AFRICA. CHAPTER VII. NYASSALAND. ONE of the results of Livingstones many lettershome, urging the necessity and pointing outthe advantages of opening up the Shire valley and theshores of Lake Nyassa by missionary labour and thefounding of a colony, was evidenced early in 1861 bythe arrival of several members of the Oxford and Cam-bridge Mission to Africa. At their head, to guide andcontrol, was Bishop Mackenzie, a hard-working andpatient man. With them arrived the Pioneer, a steamersent by the Government in reply to Livingstones request,and which was to be utiHzed now for work on the Ma-RoheH had succumbed to her many ailments bymaking a final exit on a sandbank near Sena. Living-stone in the meanwhile had written home to his friendMr. James Young, asking him :o purchase anothersteamer out of the ample funds which * MissionaryTravels had raised for him, and consequently gooddays appeared to be in store for those who had been ex-hausting time and streng
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